Grandma Pizza
James Delmage · sipandfeast.com · 2021 · Original
Grandmaas labeled by the source
DietVegetarian. Not vegan: sliced mozzarella cheese, pecorino romano.
Against 5,130 pizza recipes
Grandma style, 64% hydration: drier than 57% of the 1,480 doughs that parse, baked at 450°F, hotter than 58% of recipes that state an oven.
Grandma (Long Island): half-sheet pan-pressed, olive-oil-fried bottom, Italian-American home tradition
Tradition: 60 to 70% hydration (this recipe: 64%) · 500 to 550°F bake (this recipe: 450°F)
Baker's percentages
Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour weight (flour = 100%), the way bakers compare doughs across batch sizes.
Flour
406g
Water
260g
Hydration
64.0%
Salt
2.7%
Yeast
0.49%
Oil
0%
Sauce
28g
Cheese
473g
Dough weight
861g
Process
Bake temp
450°F / 232°C
Bake time
2 min
Oven
home standard
Surface
stone
Ingredients (10)
- flourbread flour406g
- yeastinstant yeast2g
- saltfine sea salt8g
- sugarsugar4g
- watercold water260g
- sauce tomato1 28-ounce can plum tomatoes1 oz · 28.3g
- cheese mozzarella12-16 ounces sliced mozzarella cheese12 oz · 454g
- cheese otherPecorino Romano3 tbsp · 18.9g
- oilolive oil3/4 cup · 164g
- saltkosher salt1/2 tsp · 3g
Toppings (2)
Position matters: under the cheese steams, over the cheese roasts, post-bake stays fresh.
- over cheese3 cloves garlic
- over cheeseSicilian oregano1 tsp · 0.5g
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